when we got them on board we had so much to deal with of course they were panic stricken they were in deep shock what happened is quite horrible my crew members who were involved in rescue works they got deeply involved too some people were in a dreadful condition many were injured they had oil all over their skin because when the ship sank the fuel oil came up to the surface and spread everywhere and covered the people that made rescue even harder because the oil made the victims greasy and hard to get a hold to pull them on board seeing children in that condition that was particularly heartbreaking. and probably it was very hard on survivors pattern and there's a tragedy of it as far as i know although it may be wrong but i understand that only one family survived the wreck without losing any members most people did lose their close and loved ones and yes indeed it was very hard for both on the survivors and on us to we all feel very deeply for them. right i was just about to

ask you how your crew were coping with it and how are they doing now it must have been hugely stressful was that another one at that moment we couldn't afford to think about stress we had to do all we could to prevent panic spreading and of course each of us felt it deep inside but we had to remain calm and professional to control our feelings. and succeeded in saving so many people a total of seven to seven what helped to do that was there anything particular that helped. him you know i find it hard to say what helped us because after that storm there was a brief period of calm and it happened just as we approached the wreck site that short moment of calm allowed us to pull people on board but once the rescue operation was over and we went to investigate the wreck site again the rough weather came back on the water was very rough again we got there just in time as for the crew when i already said that they performed in the best possible way everyone acted very competently the speed of the crew sickness. it can be helped

save people's lives they just want to get the job done how many passengers were on board at that time and how did they react lesson about one of the arabella was packed to full capacity at the time one hundred fifty passengers they acted like heroes i use this loud word deliberately they helped a lot they consoled the injured and there were doctors among the tourists on the arabella they assisted the ship's medic as he rendered first date and they gave a lot of psychological support to survivors that was very important. and you would think that the people who survived the ship cracked all the journalists that when they found themselves in the water and the boat sank they were instantly under that water that's the rock and then pumped up to the surface again one observer sat he thought it looked as though the sinking boat from the sort of funnel that put everything in what happens in reality the more than that gets us out of course a sinking boat can pull objects floating on the surface under the water because of the huge water displacement that churns the water into wolf whirlpool that can suck

people live about it but people who were afloat when the ship sank most of found enormous strength to fight the whirlpool and return to the surface it is difficult to tell because i have never been in their shoes and i can't imagine what it would be like had they been in the water for long before i picked them up but i want to put in i can't be precise about that but i think they were in the water for half an hour or so but also some of them a tried to get into life rafts others were still in the water it's just for a few theories of how this tragedy could have happened and one of them sas on the boat had tack around the facts you saw the bulgarian dock sometime before the sinking it's not a factor to you those that you see not all technical defects can be seen from outside experts say that the crews are listed to one side a book of what i don't know how dangerous this was for the passengers because i'm not over the year with ships of this type i never worked on that design group of young but it listed and everyone knows it as for the technical state of the cruiser . i say again that i can't pass judgment because i never inspected its engine but

if it is very difficult to tell if you don't know the particulars you know their eyewitnesses francis out of both listened to the right even when it was dark approach to listening was raise about what i'm not sure it was really so because i wasn't there and i want to ask you this question is a true but then we go to you i told you just now that the boat was listing but i can't tell you how critical it was to the ship of work we did you happen to talk with the crew of the bulgarian before the boat sailed what were they thinking if they consider the possibility that something might happen to the tang about it that's a mistake and if i could ask the boulder when the arabella dr bull got in with it was one of the planned stops but we occupied the second birth while the bulgaria was tied to the first one they were leaving at eleven o'clock and we stayed till took thirteen hundred hours when they were sailing off we had to maneuver in order to let the boat out and continue its cruise when we berth in the morning i went ashore in spite of the former captain of the boat and the current second mate of

the bulgarian and i to be at nozzle of in the center of the main deck if he had worked with the bulgaria from the very beginning well back in the times when she was called ukraine he was the captain of the ukraine but old age prevented him from remaining in charge because it is an exhausting post the captain works very hard and it's too tiring for an old man but he realized this and decided to step down into the maze position because it is easier and better for the older man he did not want to leave the bulgaria ukraine his mother ship and i approached him and we chatted a bit we shook hands and i asked him mr nozzle are you tired of sailing at your age and he told me with this sadness you know that he's got nothing to do at home his wife had passed away a few years ago and all that was left for him as a consolation was his job but the most memorable thing he told me one that stuck in my mind was when he said he didn't want to sail this year was i don't know he just didn't feel like sailing this season and then this thing. happened and seen from

the way you're attacking this story is no longer alive. that's right sadly he is gone and his body was recovered and identified it's such a pity he was a good man and a true captain such a pity is it true that the shape sank really fast yes you know i've spoken to some of the witnesses i mean survivors of course there are different versions but i attribute this to shock because they just couldn't get their thoughts together and were rather confused about it but they still say it took the ship something in like two or three maybe five minutes to sink and that really is a very short time and it is difficult to lower any boats or rafts in the meantime with a strong lurch like that brace up somehow that and that suggest that it is possible that the accident could claim so many lives because it all happened so fast but i suspect that is talk about this or vassals that as many claim passed the bulgaria or did they were just passed by why didn't they stop at the scene what was going on

but had in a package cabin i saw well we were approaching the site of the tragedy practically simultaneously with one other vessel but a heavy duty towboat with a large barge maybe it was a little bit ahead of us i don't know why they didn't stop in front of the size if they saw it happening and i can't say whether they saw it all leadership but by the time they decided to hold and come to the rescue we were already there though i don't know if i don't know maybe it was because of the ship's mass characteristics and inertia maybe they had tried to stop earlier than that anyway so at that moment we were there and the ship's presence at that spot could be counterproductive and hazardous for the people who were in the water and below the surface which would put us in that situation it was paramount that we avoided panic a disaster situation but that it was necessary to observe the scene of the accident and it was necessary to start rescuing people immediately but anyway i think we did it all faster than this other ship could have because at that moment there was just so little time for both of us as both of you have read it contact with them just.

we had contact but we just exchanged a few phrases i merely told her captor that it was pointless for him to try to rescue anyone at that moment and i asked him to move ahead a little so as not to impede our rescue operation a dark moment there was no use for his help that's what i can tell you maybe if it had been rendered earlier it could have come in handy but at that time there was no point in it and a sign that you don't want to blame anyone but at that moment it was already too late he should have bracket there in their work with he would have to hold the ship lower a boat would go but we were already approaching the site in our ship i already had boats afloat and advancing towards the site and his boat what could it do we were practically beginning to collect the people from the water but once again i'm not trying to accuse him was i don't know his vessels mass and inertia characteristics maybe he needed much more time to stop his ship and lower blows but i wouldn't rule that out i was just assessing the situation realistically at that moment and i figured that there was no use for his boat there at the time you see what was supposed to be a otos in that situation or not but of course i'm

a captain of one ship he is a captain of another ship i couldn't give him any orders or instructions because he didn't report to me and now some people in the press are already twisting the story saying i ordered him not to stop if it be a wise person or i have been the captain of the other ship and you were told it should move on and your help was of no here is what would you to. but i can't imagine myself a captain of that ship i don't want to offend anyone it's just that i don't know what i would do if i were in his shoes at the moment but if i had seen all that happening right in front of me or simply saw people overboard i swear i would have done the same as i did being on my ship thank you very much.

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mark cavendish winning stage fifteen us and riders approach the mediterranean sea thomas voeckler though he still holding on to the overall leader's yellow jersey after that one hundred ninety two kilometer run from the mouth to montpellier a twenty six year old now. and the sure thing is nineteen career stage when the fourth of this series addition sprinters are dominating all of the stages mostly flock to rain as expected speed specialist tyler for are. coming in second on third freshman voeckler still blocking the locals and yellow for the seventh straight stage. they have yashin cup is heading to germany dominating this year's event which puts together select european under twenty one squads in moscow robert on the and explains all. he is the pride of soviet and russian football live yashin was central in his national team's biggest achievements winning olympic gold in one

thousand nine hundred fifty six and then they use a service first european championships four years later he's still the only goalkeeper in the history of the game to play in the european football or of the year award in ninety six or three and was voted for people's best shot stopper of the twentieth century. decades later dinamo moscow the club where yes and spent his entire career strive to keep his legend alive. the live yashin cup an international tournament for under twenty one teams an essential part of his plan although yes in successors the young the number hopefuls has still some work to do to feel yeah sions boots. after losing to orth kabeer grad in the semifinals the muscovites all went head to head with everton in third place game mcclish which was tough going for the hosts from the off. the english side we think

a number of gilt edged jones us in the first half including in this belting after the break the visitors were left with ten men when our students received a second yellow card but that didn't help the nominee everton the team who promptly brought the dead look. only netting in style here one. enormous push for a level or then close the russians again on the counter-attack not only claiming his brace here for a final scoreline of two nil it was nice to chat so it's a good lesson for us we have to be strong european schools and tester sounds against and this is the only way to produce our own generation of skilful players on the other for four months all credit to the players you know so. it's more difficult to play against them. today showed the thought we maybe should have been

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be filled in russia robert burden on party. and italia is shameka house today forever etched her name into the annals of synchronized swimming the russian becoming the first ever eleven time world champion after winning her latest goal at the finals in shanghai the twenty five year old giving our country the first medal of the tournament as well winning her third straight world championship and an impeccable informants in the solo program seeing a shank a score ninety eight point three points out of one hundred thousand mark topping the local favorite allowing chan while spaniard on the grid for entities took the last spot on the podium this term and far from over for two thought if they made beijing gold winner a shame though it will end state of is expected to russia's medal haul in the upcoming jewett and. since. three of moto g.p. top five riders this year produced quite a spectacle of the german grand prix on sunday dummy pedrosa prevailing over

a pole sitter casey stoner and reigning champion whole day lorenzo after a race long battle of the circuit but also getting off to a blistering start in his home to from second place in what would prove a start to finish battle for dominance teammate still no was on willing to budge though early on with lorenzo also in the mix after starting from third person has quite a liking for the track calvin won here four previous times in different engine classes this funny adventure the rounding the circuit for victory in just his second race after returning from collarbone surgery. a second stoner third australian story or still leads the overall standings though fifteen points ahead of lorenzo. one of the n.b.a.'s elite point guards will be wearing this colors next season duran williams officially putting pen to paper with the turkish club for one year as the lockout shows no sign of being lifted stateside the twenty seven year old's contract reporting where some five million dollars williams could ever head back to

the new jersey nets early if the american league's labor issues are resolved in georgia native zones up a truly zero will also be joining up with d.-wil leaving the atlanta hawks for a european adventure is no stranger to n.b.a. talent topping briefly employed the league's four time scoring champion and former m.v.p. allen iverson. and finally brazil's. leg of the beach volleyball world tour with the fourth edition of the tournament coming to an end in the russian capital on sunday evening they had to contend with a poor but held their nerve to seal victory and then the rolling final against which. once again that was the russian team insights as for men's competition reached the medal rounds heavy rain has been falling in moscow since the early morning but thing fleet have cleared by early afternoon the best crowd of the event braved overcast skies to watch will be hoped will be some high class beach

volleyball action first up on colts was b. american jew todd rogers and phil dollhouse who took on paying and who really needs and wants was a rematch of last year's final. the call was still damp part of a heavy rain this had both his pros and cons makes it hard right back there he said right here in general they're just kind of nice so much itself proved to be a cracker of momentum swing back and forth between the perez however it was a reigning olympic champions who held the nerve to take it in frailing third set tie a break and gain some revenge for a defeat in moscow to be a chinese opponents last year it's in the middle of the season and then are through so are usually played well but this matter here was like the exact same match last year except we came to that. which is that you will get that before and also brazil's allison i'm going man u. well take on patrick push and jefferson bellegarde of switzerland power versus the

teams taken to be called the heavens opened just as they've been frightening to do for the last hour the south american jew who'd only been playing together for a couple of years to the first set comfortably but the rain became stronger suit of the swiss as by level of the match and send the gold medal game into a decider. the brazilian jewel looked down and now it is better opponents opened up a six point lead however they hit back brilliantly to seal big cherry who is a man you well would go on to say the weather conditions certainly didn't help i think there were a mix you called. and i can lose some concentration in many points another think the ball slips slips more than brittle or it's hard to control you know the both of both teams but the morning evolved through rain the dreadful weather didn't manage to spoil what turned out to be unfurling day of beach volleyball for the spectators

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see don't need to go and. run this in the kennel was her job as a retreat. snap to cable has forced rescuers to restart the complicated operation to lift the massive bulgaria cruiser that sank a week ago claiming one hundred twenty nine lives. the murdoch media scandal claims another scout britain's top cop quits over connections to journalists suspected of bribery and phone hacking former news international chief executive of news of the world editor rebecca brooks has also found herself once again dealing with police behind closed doors but this time under arrest before being released on bail. libyan rebels have been recognized as the legitimate governing authority in the country by the u.s. and thirty other countries but colonel gadhafi remains defiant never to leave libya as nato airstrikes continue. and. cash

crunch as america struggles to raise its debt ceiling in a time to avert a default while the euro crisis spreads adding more pressure on the single currency . broadcasting live from moscow russia's capital this is r.t. i'm john thomas glad to have you with us. russian emergency crews are to restart efforts to lift of the wreck of a sunken cruiser which went down in the river volga last week killing one hundred twenty nine people including many children a cable snapped during recovery efforts which have had to be restarted the cruiser bulgaria went down in minutes leaving most of the two hundred passengers with no chance of escape in one of russia's worst ever shipping disasters artie's tom

barton reports from the site of the catastrophe as if to demonstrate just how difficult recovering the ball gary is going to be the cable holding it just snapped with a norm mighty buying the crane holding it rocked backwards and the cable whips up against the side of the ship that cable was there to try and support the ship to try and write it before they began lifting the ship with other straps the later to be put under it has served to demonstrate just how difficult and dangerous this operation is going to be if there were divers under there they could have been in great danger from the snapping cable they'd previously been trying to turn the ship round to get into position in order that they could right the ship and then bring it up to the surface but there's a lot of other complications involved very poor visibility a lot of weight involved and a long a long and lengthy process is going to be needed we were told just recently by a spokesman from the emergencies ministry it's going to take many days before they can begin to even start raising the show.